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History of Rome, Volume IX: Books 31-34 by Livy
RRP: €29.69€27.83Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17.Livy's history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the... -
Fifty Key Classical Authors by Alison Sharrock 9780415165112
RRP: €30.93€26.93A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world. Including essays on Sappho, Polybius and Lucan, as well as on major... -
Library of History: v. 4 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: €29.69€27.83Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
On the Embassy to Gaius: General Indexes: v. 10 by Philo
RRP: €29.69€27.83A diplomatic mission to the emperor Caligula.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as... -
The History of Zonaras: From Alexander Severus to the Death of Theodosius the Great by Thomas Banchich
RRP: €44.02€38.71While an exile from Constantinople, the twelfth-century Byzantine functionary and canonist John Zonaras culled earlier chronicles and histories to compose an account of events from creation to the reign of Alexius Comnenus. For topics where his sources... -
Julia Velva, A Roman Lady from York: Her Life and Times Revealed Patrick Ottaway 9781526710970
RRP: €35.70€24.93The tombstone of Julia Velva, one of the best-preserved examples from Roman Britain, was found close to a Roman road just outside the centre of York. Fifty years old when she died in the early third century, Julia Velva was probably from a wealthy family... -
Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature by Gail Holst-Warhaft 9780415121651
RRP: €45.21€39.72In Dangerous Voices Holst-Warhaft investigates the power and meaning of the ancient lament, especially women's mourning of the dead, and sets out to discover why legislation was introduced to curb these laments in antiquity. An investigation of laments... -
The Stoic Doctrine of Providence: A Study of its Development and of Some of its Major Issues by Bernard Collette 9781032049083
RRP: €47.59€42.20The Stoic Doctrine of Providence attempts to reconstruct the Stoic doctrine of providence (as argued for in ancient texts now lost) and explain its many fascinating philosophical issues.Examining issues such as the compatibility between good and evil,... -
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 2, Greek Drama by P. E. Easterling 9780521359825
RRP: €40.45€33.77This series provides individual textbooks on early Greek poetry, on Greek drama, on philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and of the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part IV... -
Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts by Richard F. Buxton 9780198814573
RRP: €42.83€36.79This work brings together eleven of Richard Buxton's studies of Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, focusing especially on the interrelationship between the two, and their importance to the Greeks themselves. Situating and contextualizing topics and... -
Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History by Maria Wyke 9780415906142
RRP: €53.54€46.74Brought vividly to life on screen, the myth of ancient Rome resonates through modern popular culture. Projectingthe Past examines how the cinematic traditions of Hollywood and Italy have resurrected ancient Rome to address the concerns of the present... -
A Coloring Book of Ancient Egypt: With Illustrations from the Artists of Those Times by Bellerophon Books 9780883880050
RRP: €5.36€5.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883880050Author Bellerophon BooksFormat PaperbackImprint Bellerophon BooksPublisher Bellerophon Books -
Burnley and Pendle Archaeology: Part two: Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age by John A. Clayton 9780957004344
€23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957004344Author John A. ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Barrowford PressPublisher Barrowford Press -
Centaurs and Snake-Kings: Hybrids and the Greek Imagination Jeremy McInerney 9781009459105
RRP: €35.70€28.76Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these composite creatures arise from the entanglement of humans and animals. Overlaying such enmeshment is the rich... -
Alexandria Lost: From the Advent of Christianity to the Arab Conquest by Bojana Mojsov
€32.61Imperialism, nationalism, religion and race: this narrative charts the tensions that destroyed Alexandria's ancient walls, leading to the loss of an entire classical heritage, and beginning a thousand-year rift between Christian Europe and the Islamic... -
Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine by Karel van der Toorn
RRP: €65.45€54.37Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has never been told before. In the fifth century BCE... -
A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts: Third, revised and expanded edition John L Hayes 9780979893742
RRP: €48.79€47.81This manual is designed as a textbook of the Sumerian language, based principally on texts of the Ur III period (21st century BCE). It is self-contained, so that it will be of use to students with or without a teacher. It includes a general description... -
The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran by Matthew P. Canepa 9780520294837
RRP: €35.70€28.19This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. Bridging the... -
Lucan: De Bello Ciuili Book VII by Paul Roche 9781107614451
RRP: €33.31€28.88Book VII of Lucan's De Bello Ciuili recounts the decisive victory of Julius Caesar over Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus on 9 August 48 BCE. Uniquely within Lucan's epic, the entire book is devoted to one event, as the narrator struggles to convey the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire by Kirk Freudenburg 9780521006279
RRP: €45.21€39.23Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city... -
Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Kirk Ormand
RRP: €35.69€32.01"Comprehensive, reader-friendly, richly detailed, forthright, subtle, and very clear, Controlling Desires is the only handbook on ancient sexuality that works persistently to offset modern readers' assumptions about sex and sexuality, to challenge the... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians by Andrew Feldherr 9780521670937
RRP: €40.45€35.30No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political... -
Hermes by Arlene Allan 9780367496609
RRP: €47.59€41.72Hermes redresses the gap in modern English scholarship on this fascinating and complex god, presenting its readers with an introduction to Hermes' social, religious and political importance through discussions of his myths, iconography and worship. It... -
“When on High the Heavens…”: Mesopotamian Religion and Spirituality with Reference to the Biblical World by Giorgio Buccellati 9780367256753
RRP: €44.02€38.71This English translation of Giorgio Buccellati's ambitious work offers readers an insightful discussion of ancient Mesopotamian religion and spirituality in its relationship to the biblical ethos.Our understanding of ancient Mesopotamian religion, while... -
Theodosius: The Empire at Bay by Gerard Friell
RRP: €45.21€39.72Emperor Theodosius (379-95) was the last Roman emperor to rule a unified empire of East and West and his reign represents a turning point in the policies and fortunes of the Late Roman Empire. In this imperial biography, Stephen Williams and Gerry Friell... -
Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order by Christopher Fuhrmann 9780199360017
RRP: €58.89€37.19Historians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution. Most recent scholarship has claimed that Roman society relied on kinship networks or community self-regulation as a means of... -
Constructing Early Christian Families: Family as Social Reality and Metaphor by Halvor Moxnes
RRP: €45.21€39.72The family is a topical issue for studies of the Ancient world. Family, household and kinship have different connotations in antiquity from their modern ones. This volume expands that discussion to investigate the early Christian family structures within... -
Discovering Tutankhamun's Tomb: Level 15 (Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme) by Juliet Kerrigan
RRP: €6.55€6.41Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows... -
The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine by Patricia Southern 9780415738088
RRP: €59.49€52.24The third century of the Roman Empire is a confused and sparsely documented period, punctuated by wars, victorious conquests and ignominious losses, and a recurring cycle of rebellions that saw several Emperors created and eliminated by the Roman armies... -
A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian by R. O. Faulkner 9780900416323
€58.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900416323Author R.O. FaulknerFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Griffith InstitutePublisher Griffith Institute -
Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure by Paul Veyne
RRP: €19.04€16.47Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential city,... -
Dura-Europos by Jennifer Baird
€33.31Dura-Europos is one of Syria's most important archaeological sites. Situated on the edge of the Euphrates river, it was the subject of extensive excavations in the 1920s and 30s by teams from Yale University and the Academie des Inscriptions et... -
The Story of Athens: The Fragments of the Local Chronicles of Attika by Phillip Harding
RRP: €45.21€39.72A leading authority in the field, Phillip Harding presents the very first English translations of the six Athenian writers known as the Atthidographers.In his vivid and detailed history, Harding examines the remaining fragments of these historical... -
Claudius by Barbara Levick
RRP: €47.59€41.72Claudius became emperor after the assassination of Caligula, and was deified by his successor Nero in AD 54. Opinions of him have varied greatly over succeeding centuries, but he has mostly been caricatured as a reluctant emperor, hampered by a speech... -
Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land by Gary L. Rashba 9781612000084
RRP: €29.75€24.60Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, ever-present in the news, is merely the latest episode in an unending history of violence in the Holyland, a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world... -
Roman Empire: Power and People by Dirk Booms
€21.29Arguably the most formidable of powers the world has ever seen, the Roman Empire in its prime stretched from Spain to Iraq and from Germany to Egypt, encompassing all the territory in between. By AD 117, it had engulfed almost fifty countries we know... -
Virgil by Philip Hardie 9780199223428
RRP: €23.79€20.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199223428Author Philip HardieFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 209g -
The Greek City States: A Source Book by P. J. Rhodes
RRP: €34.50€31.20Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in... -
Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks by Frank M. Snowden
RRP: €36.83€29.06In this richly illustrated account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color. For three thousand years Mediterranean whites... -
Towers of Atlantis: Evidence not Fantasy by Paul Dunbavin 9780952502937
RRP: €20.22€14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952502937Author Paul DunbavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Third Millennium PublishingPublisher Third Millennium Publishing